Loader Driven From Job Site

Unincorporated -- A front-end loader was taken from a job site near the intersection of Glades Road and Ponderosa Lane, west of Boca Raton, a Palm Beach County Sheriff`s Office report said.

The loader, which apparently had a flat tire, was driven around the site. The sheriff`s deputies followed the tracks to the edge of a wooded area near the site where they disappeared, according to the report.

The owner of the loader used an airplane to locate the machinery, which was found halfway down the bank of a canal, the report said.